Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA: Family History of Ivan Hurst

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Death	Person ID	Tree
1	Shepard, Deborah	11 Feb 1841	Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA	I320166709078	Hurst Improbable Family Tree

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Education	Person ID	Tree
1	Coolidge, John Calvin 30th President of USA	Abt 1895	Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA	I26650787459	Hurst Improbable Family Tree

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Whilst the improbable tree has lots of information yet to be validated, the tree I have created just for DNA matches and the links of ancestors between us, only has spouses that are not in some way validated.

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Part of the process of assessment of a record for me, is about location. This takes me into social economic history. In the 19th century, where a lot of our records come from, life was considerably different form today. The very rich could move about the country, and indeed they would with a degree of ease that we have today, albeit on a different timescale. I recently found people on my tree that migrated to North America, and subsequently part of the family moved on to Australia, and set up home there. Shipping passenger records indicate that people from that family frequently visited their relatives both in North America and Britain, before returning to their home in Australia. That was not the lot of the masses though.

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